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New Execution Date Is Set for McGinn
As DNA Tests Confirm Guilt in Murder

By

Laurie P. Cohen Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 16, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

BROWNWOOD, Texas -- A state judge set a new execution date for death-row inmate Ricky Nolen McGinn after DNA tests confirmed his guilt in the rape and murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter.

The results of the DNA tests were first reported in a page one article in The Wall Street Journal on July 12. Mr. McGinn, who was convicted in 1995, was originally scheduled to be executed June 1, the day that Gov. George W. Bush granted a reprieve so that the DNA tests could be done. State District Judge Stephen Ellis made the test...